The book is devoted to the study of the general logic of behavior of participants in conflict situations - game theory. First published in 1960, it became a fundamental contribution to this science, laying the foundations for the theory of strategic behavior. The work is of great importance for the study of some important classes of games - games with incomplete information, non-antagonistic games, etc. At the same time, the author does without complex mathematical apparatus and devotes a significant part of the book to practical applications of the theory, primarily to the field of international politics. The subject of consideration is non-antagonistic conflict situations, when the interests of the parties, although contradicting each other, are not exactly opposite and require a certain cooperation. Such situations include, for example, military operations, arms control negotiations, mutual threat policies, etc. In particular, Thomas Schelling is one of the developers of the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. The book “The Strategy of Conflict” became one of the main works that brought the Nobel Prize in Economics to its author, a professor at the University of Maryland. Every reader who wants to understand the internal logic of modern international politics needs to read it. At the same time, the book will be useful to students studying game theory and specialists who use it in their practical activities.